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The Independent (2001)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:29
Rotten:19
Average Rating:6/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 30, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: Morty Fineman (Jerry Stiller) is an independent schlock film producer-star-director with a problem. He's broke, and he can't finance his new film about a singing serial killer. The bank offers to... [More]
Starring: Jerry Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Stiller, Andy Dick
Director: Stephen Kessler
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05/13/05
Stylistically, The Independent can't decide if it's a mockumentary like Spinal Tap or a fiction narrative like Bowfinger. Worse, its story of a filmmaker struggling against all odds feels worn and derivative here.
12/07/01
Excruciatingly unamusing.
03/29/02
It's cute and amiable, maybe easier to cherish if you don't recall Russ Meyer or Matinee or Ed Wood.
05/03/02
Most of what we see on the screen has been done before -- many times before, and many times better.
01/29/02
Film buffs with a taste for B or worse movies and a curiosity about those who toil maniacally on the fringes of Hollywood will find The Independent a hoot. But there’s little for the rest of us beyond the film’s easy-to-spoof concept.
12/09/01
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08/10/05
Funny in bits. But the bits don't add up to a whole lot.
11/30/01
Top CriticA parody of exploitation films that fails largely because the movie itself is as unpolished as the ones it sends up.
10/29/01
While [Stiller] and everyone else look like they're having a great time working on a shoestring, their movie too often retells the same joke.
04/26/02
The Independent is at once the most insubstantial and doleful mockumentary of the early 2000s. As many major publications round up favourable reviews, they present themselves as counterfactual -- critiques that demand critiquing.
03/11/02
The genius of the This Is Spinal Tap team becomes even more apparent with each failed imitation, of which The Independent is the umpteenth.
11/30/01
Top CriticThe press kit for the B-movie mockumentary The Independent is hilarious, sidesplitting, and leaps and bounds funnier than the awful film that the kit promotes.
03/29/02
Everyone involved obviously had a blast, but in the end this is a one-joke movie, and the joke is stretched too thin.
11/29/01
When it's trying to be a more conventional comedy, it's mostly pretty bad.
07/20/02
Top CriticEven with its over-the-top spirit, The Independent's sense of spoof quickly goes flat.
03/01/02
... a stretched-to -the-limit parody of B-movie audacity ...
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